Plate for The Fish and the Fireworks, Fable Sixteen, in Fables Nouvelles, Dediées au Roy

Claude Gillot|Gregoire Dupuis|Lamotte-Houdar

1719 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Although he was not trained as a professional printmaker, Gillot found a robust market for his whimsical small-scale designs for book illustrations, which he often etched himself with remarkable fluidity. Here, he illustrates the opening lines of a fable by Antoine Houdar de La Motte in which fireworks set off from a large structure illuminate the night sky. The etching was included in La Motte's Fables nouvelles, dediées au roy, published by Gregoire Dupuis in 1719.

Artist

Claude Gillot|Gregoire Dupuis|Lamotte-Houdar

Date

1719

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934